President Barack Obama's pivot to Asia bared its fangs last week. China had declared an Air Defense Identification Zone in an area that included those rocky Islands which are called the Senkakus by the Japanese and Diaoyu by the Chinese. The US responded to the declaration of the ADIZ by flying 2 B-52s directly into it and that message is kind of incontestable. Colonel Steve Warren at the Pentagon said Washington had "conducted operations in the area of the Senkakus". "We have continued to follow our normal procedures, which include not filing flight plans, not radioing ahead and not...
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